Bar Diagrams

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The day after day after tomorrow is four days before Monday. What is today?

Q. The graph below shows the number of people who like different fruits.


Select the option according to the Bar Graph.

1. Blue berry is the favourite fruit of 40 people
2. 40 people like banana
3. 30 people like orange
4. Least number of people prefer grapes

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The bar graph shows the usual method of transport to school for the students in a class. Which mode of transport is used by the maximum number of students?

1. 20

2. 21

3. 22

4. 23

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Question 37

The following bar graph represents the data for different sizes of shoes worn by the students in a school.

Read the graph and answer the following questions:
(a) Find the number of students whose shoes sizes have been collected.
(b) What is the number of students wearing shoe size 6?
(c) What are the different sizes of the shoes worn by the students?
(d) Which shoe size is worn by the maximum number of students?
(e) Which shoe size is worn by the minimum number of students?
(f) state whether true or false:
The total number of students wearing shoe sizes 5 and 8 are the same as the number of students wearing shoe size 6.

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Question 1

A survey of 120 school students was done to find which activity they prefer to do in their free time:
Draw a bar graph to illustrate the above data taking the scale of 1 unit length = 5 students.
Which activity is preferred by most of the students other than playing?

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Question 17

In a bar graph, ___ can be drawn horizontally or vertically.

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Question 2

The number of mathematics books sold by a shopkeeper on six consecutive days is shown below:
Draw a bar graph to represent the above information choosing the scale of your choice.

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Question 6
In a bar graph, the width of bars may be unequal.

Q. A graph showing two sets of data simultaneously is known as double bar graph. State whether the statement is True or False

1. True
2. False

Q. Read the bar graph given below and answer the following question.How many families have 4 members in their family?

1. 40
2. 35
3. 25
4. 30

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Question 36
The following bar graph shows the number of houses (out of 100) in a town using different types of fuels for cooking.

Read the bar graph and answer the following questions:
(a) Which fuel is used in maximum number of houses?
(b) How many houses are using coal as fuel?
(c) Suppose that the total number of houses in the town is 1 lakh. From the above graph, estimate the number of houses using electricity.

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Question 41
Read the bar graph given below and answer the following questions.


(a) What information is given by the bar graph?
(b) In which year is the number of students maximum?
(c) In which year is the number of students twice as that of 2001- 02?
(d) In which year did the number of students decreases as compared to previous year?
(e) In which year are the increases in the number of students maximum as compared to the previous year?

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Question 4(b)

The number of persons in various age groups in a town is given in the following table:
Draw a bar graph to represent the above information and answer the following question. (Take 1 unit length = 20 thousand)
All persons in the age group of 60 and above are called senior citizens. How many senior citizens are there in the town?

Q. Which of the following represents the data using rectangular bars?

1. Pictographs
2. Bar graphs
3. Data graphs
4. Tally graphs

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Question 42
The length in km (rounded to nearest hundred) of some major rivers fo India is given below:
$\begin{array}{cc}\text{River}& \text{Length(in km)}\\ \text{Narmada}& 1300\\ \text{Mahanadi}& 900\\ \text{Brahmaputra}& 2900\\ \text{Ganga}& 2500\\ \text{Kaveri}& 800\\ \text{Krishna}& 1300\end{array}$
Draw a bar graph to represent the above information.

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Question 8
In a bar graph, the gap between two consecutive bars may not be the same.

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Question 18

In a bar graph, bars of ___ width can be drawn horizontally or vertically with ___ spacing between them.

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Question 3(a)

Following shows the number of bicycles manufactured in a factory during the year 1998 to 2002. Illustrate this data using a bar graph. Choose a scale your choice.
In which year was the maximum number of bicycles manufactured?

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In bar graphs, the bars can only be drawn horizontally.

1. False

2. True

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The table shows the number of pets owned by students in classes A and B. Draw a bar graph.

$\begin{array}{ccc}\text{Pet}& \text{Class A}& \text{Class B}\\ \text{Dog}& 12& 14\\ \text{Cat}& 9& 8\\ \text{Bird}& 2& 3\end{array}$
a. Which class has more number of pets?
b. Which class has the greater number of birds?
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Following table shows the number of bicycles manufactured in a factory during the years 1998 to 2002. Illustrate this data using a bar graph. Choose a scale of your choice.

Years	Number of bicycles manufactured
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002	800 600 900 1100 1200

(a) In which year was the maximum number of bicycles manufactured?

(b) In which year was the minimum number of bicycles manufactured?

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Question 39
The bar graph given below represents approximate length (in km ) of some national highways in India.

Study the bar graph and answer the following questions:
(a) Which National Highway (NH) is the longest among the above?
(b) Which National highway is the shortest among the above?
(c) What is the length of National Highway 9?
(d) Length of which National Highway is about three times the National Highway 10?

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Question 40
The bar graph below represents the circulation of the newspapers in different languages in a town,

Study the bar graph and answer the following questions:
(a) What is the circulation fo English newspaper?
(b) Name the two languages in which circulation of the newspaper is the same.
(c) By how much is the circulation of newspaper in Hindi more than the newspaper in Bengali?

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Question 4(a)

The number of persons in various age groups in a town is given in the following table:
Draw a bar graph to represent the above information and answer the following question. (Take 1 unit length = 20 thousand)
Which two age groups have the same population?

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Number of persons in various age groups in a town is given in the following table.

Age group	1 − 14	15 − 29	30 − 44	45 − 59	60 −74	75 and above
Number of persons	2 lakhs	1 lakhs 60 thousands	1 lakh 20 thousands	1 lakh 20 thousands	80	40 Thousands

Draw a bar graph to represent the above information and answer the following questions. (take 1 unit length = 20 thousands)

(a) Which two age groups have same population?

(b) All persons in the age group of 60 and above are called senior citizens. How many senior citizens are there in the town?

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Question 38

The following graph gives the information about the number of railway tickets sold for different cities on a railway ticket counter between 6.00 am to 10. 00 am

Read the bar graph and answer the following questions:
(a) How many tickets were sold in all?
(b) For which city was the maximum number of tickets sold?
(c) For which city was the minimum number of tickets sold?
(d) Name the cities for which the number of tickets sold is more than 20.
(e) Fill in the blanks
The number of tickets sold for Delhi and Jaipur together exceeds the total number of tickets sold for Patna and Chennai by ___.

Q. The information represented by a bar graph can never be represented by a pictograph.

1. True
2. False

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The bar graph given alongside shows the amount of wheat purchased by government during the year 1998-2002.

Read the bar graph and write down your observations. In which year was

(a) the wheat production maximum?

(b) the wheat production minimum?

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Question 3(b)

Following shows the number of bicycles manufactured in a factory during the year 1998 to 2002. Illustrate this data using a bar graph. Choose a scale your choice.
In which year was the minimum number of bicycles manufactured?

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Question. 7
In a bar graph, bars of uniform width are drawn vertically only.